Paul Pierce has been busy on the felt all day. It seems each time we pass by his table he's in a hand. We found this hand on the turn with the board reading and a 7,000 pot. WIth two other players in the hand the big blind checked, Pierce bet 2,500 and an older gentleman called. The big blind folded and the river came .
Pierce led out with 5,000 and the older gentleman min-raised to 10,000. Pierce kept his gaze on the man and folded his cards. Pierce has slipped a bit, chipping down to around 65,000.
The main feature table -- located inside the so-called "mothership" -- has been a fairly quiet scene for most of the day, with the surrounding seats mostly empty as the players have mostly wordlessly played through the first almost-four levels.
Defending champ Jonathan Duhamel scored an exciting double-up mid-afternoon, but has slipped over the last couple of hours to a below-average stack. He now sits with about 17,000. Michael DeMichele has been short since early on, and presently is nursing a stack of about 8,500.
Meanwhile, Nathan Amar is the one whose enjoyed the day and early evening the most over there, amassing a stack of about 115,000.
2002 Scripps National Spelling Bee Winner Praytush Buddiga has steadily been adding to his stack all day. Most recently he raised to 700 from middle position and the player on the button called.
After the flop came all it took was a bet of 800 chips from Buddiga to convince his opponent to fold. After the hand he was up to around 60,000.
We passed by Dan O'Brien's former table and found his chair unoccupied. From what we gathered he hand an up and down Broadway draw but was against someone who flopped two pair holding . O'Brien didn't hit any of his outs and has been knocked out.
Our PokerNews reporter picked up the action on a board that read , where a player in middle position checked to Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman, who led out for 2,200 from the button.
The middle position player check-raised to 8,000 and Boatman called before the river , where the middle position player splashed out 10,000. Boatman called, but wasn't all that thrilled to see that his rival had tabled .
"I had a set too," Boatman lamented. "I had sixes."
Julien Brecard has dropped to 61,000. He opened in middle position to 725 and got one caller as they saw an flop. Brecard fired out 1,100 and was call before he tried a second bullet on the turn for 1,600 but again he was called.
The river was the and this time the Frenchman check-called a bet of 3,000 only to muck when he was shown for the pot.
and a 7,000 pot. WIth two other players in the hand the big blind checked, Pierce bet 2,500 and an older gentleman called. The big blind folded and the river came 
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all it took was a bet of 800 chips from Buddiga to convince his opponent to fold. After the hand he was up to around 60,000.
board, Phil Hellmuth called 6,000 from Rick Rahim to see the 
hit the river.
. O'Brien didn't hit any of his outs and has been knocked out.
, where the middle position player splashed out 10,000. Boatman called, but wasn't all that thrilled to see that his rival had tabled 
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flop. Brecard fired out 1,100 and was call before he tried a second bullet on the 
and this time the Frenchman check-called a bet of 3,000 only to muck when he was shown 
for the pot.